[Intro: Madlib scratches]
{*behind vocal samples from foreign movie*}
"Zion I!"
"Planet As'!"
"Madlib!"
[Verse: Zion aka Zumbi]
Yo, check out the superb tech
Cashin' checks through dialect
Dope as the gold around your neck
This is my manuscript to spit
Lyrics like fat spliff
I show the whole damn world my gift
Papyrus, who speakin' upon
Powerful, just like a pawn
Positioned in the proper placement
Focused like militants
Deep in concentrational cabins
Devise the secret plan to split atoms
I verbalize – lust to bust, just as dangerous
As watchin' Mount Vesuvius erupt
Corrupt your data disc
From the super soul powered slumps
Zion I, Planet Asia, make it bump, bump
I'm deep off in the trunk
SWATs call it crunk
The 15 inch woofers make the beat go thump
I dump clips to prose
Orator of goals
The chilling-est, killing-est, with the illest type flows
[Interlude: live show sample]
"(Ah yeah...) See, right about now...
See, what we don't wanna do... (Uhh... word)
What we don't wanna do...
Is just get up here, just do shit, you know what I'm sayin
That you done seen and did, and, you know...
Just wearin' shit we wore before... things like that, ya know?
We come out to give ya a little somethin' different
Alright?! Well, we gonna get into a little something like this
Whenever y'all ready...."
[Verse 2: Planet Asia]
Yo, yo – vocally blessed to beat you into submission
I paddle units with pro-truth from the underside of the train
Do not touch, I'm high voltage like the third electric
Emergency phones needed in every tunnel for this murder method
You're dealing with the armed forces
We wave warmed torches
Through the trenches of the onslaughtness
G up, we up next, I'm anticipated
Post, my plan is to stand behind my ever line stated
Deluxe, Aeon Flux-uatewhat I pronunciate
Cold verses be lookin' out, but ya'll people got months to wait
"Life As It Is," baby – Zion I got me flyin' high
My mind inside music symbolic to I-'n-I
This ain't the Sci-Fi channel
We true and livin' legends of the speak freak committee
Clash The Titans through the vinyl
When we splash the atlas – with the rules of the game
We out the old school and came to drop a jewel on your brain, yo
[Interlude 2: various samples]
"Since we are folks who has this mad passion for the observance of music"
("I... I am the art")
"Beats!" "Or just rap..."
"We're going to do something that's a little bit different
Right now..." "Already"
"And as we put it together, you'll probably be able to dig what we mean"
("I'm...")
[Verse 3: Zion I]
My brother hipped me on the game
Said that we original mane
And we manifested here to spit slang
I thought a minute
And let it sink, deep like the Titanic
We wider than the ocean of Atlantic
This typical mythical style in the West is gettin' Wild
I'm chillin' like a sphinx upon the Nile
Reverberatin', why is you hatin? Hip-Hop we creatin'
Across the desert sands, we be bakin'
My melanin, the key to lock, rock spots in flocks
Walk the rugged avenue with my b-boy bop
It's evolution, toss a pebble at the Devil and smile
I'm rebelling while propelling freestyles (Styles...)
[Verse 4: Planet Asia]
From the bottom to the top, I made a lot of 'em drop
Hip-Hop's the lifestyle of urban civilians and even cops
No, it don't stop
Once again another classic
Fantastic rap shit to make y'all MC's wanna practice
How to lock shit down like Daddy As'
I blaze mics for days
Hit the page, like stage and burn sage, then engage
This ain't a phase or some played-out gimmick
That's word to Kemet, for the fact that most of y'all cats is timid
Vivid – fuels, of the duels and don'ts, don't apply
To the non-compromising Planet Asia, Zion I
Worldwide we're known, zones of the chosen few
Verbal shots, I cypher rhymes to leave holes in you
[Outro: Inspectah Deck sample]
"Verbal assault – it's on 'til the death, 'til we settle the score"
"Verbal assault – it's on 'til the death, 'til we settle the score"
"Verbal" "Verbal" "Verbal assault..."
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